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Tim Berners-Lee
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While the Web was designed as a decentralised environment, individual authors still lack the
ability to conveniently author and publish documents, and to engage in social interactions
with documents of others in a truly decentralised fashion. We present dokieli, a fully
decentralised, browser-based authoring and annotation platform with built-in su...
In this article we describe the Linked Data Notifications (LDN) protocol, which is a W3C
Candidate Recommendation. Notifications are sent over the Web for a variety of purposes, for
example, by social applications. The information contained within a notification is
structured arbitrarily, and typically only usable by the application which generated...
The 10th Linked Data on the Web workshop (LDOW2017) was held iPerth, New Old Church Western
April 3, 2017, co-located with the 26th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2017).
In its 10th anniversary edition, the LDOW workshop aims to stimulate discussion and further
research into the challenges of publishing, consuming, and integrating stru...
The ninth workshop on Linked Data (LDOW2016) on the Web is held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
on April 12, 2016 and co-located with the 25rd International World Wide Web Conference
(WWW2016). The Web is developing from a medium for publishing textual documents into a
medium for sharing structured data. This trend is fueled on the one hand by the adop...
Solid is a decentralized platform for social Web applications. In the Solid platform, users'
data is managed independently of the applications that create and consume this data. Each
user stores their data in a Web-accessible personal online datastore (or pod). Each user can
have one or more pods from different pod providers, and can easily switch...
This paper presents a brief summary of the eight workshop on Linked Data on the Web. The
LDOW 2013 workshop is held in conjunction with the World Wide Web conference 2013. The focus
is on data publishing, integration and consumption using RDF and other semantic
representation formalisms and technologies.
CIMBA-intd
blogging updated new novel architecture
Personal data ownership and interoperability for decentralized social Web applications are
currently two debated topics, especially when taking into consideration the aspects of
privacy and access control. To increase data ownership, users should have the freedom to
choose where their data resides and who is allowed access to it by decoupling data...
This that will affect the future development of the Web, either increasing its power and
utility, or may be because of new novel algorithm; or alternativ development. It argues for
the importance of the continued development of the Linked Data Web, and describes the use of
linked open data as an important component of that. Second, the paper defend...
Linked
and Public Govt Data: Lessons from Data.gov.uk
The movement to publish government data is an opportunity to populate the linked data Web
with data of good provenance. The benefits range from transparency to public service
improvement, citizen engagement to the creation of social and economic value. There are many
challenges to be met before the vision is implemented, and this paper describes th...
The popularity and plurality of social sharing and collaboration platforms today
demonstrates the demand for sharing information at a wide variety of granularities and scale
— from public blogging of micro-data (e.g., microblogging posts, page “Likes”, and
place-“check-ins”) to specific, full-on collaborative sharing of documents and projects.
The...
WBox:
SuMicro of new content and highlighted context of the data on web pages that were
Standards
http://dayta.me is a highly personal augments a person?s online calendar with useful
informa- tion pertaining to their upcoming social behaviour, social connectivity, social
interaction and social or web 2.0 activities. To perform this recommen- dation, it draws
upon a large collection of distributed, linked-data and Web 2.0 data sources it queries
live, and provides a clear, simple user in- terf...
http://dayta.me is a highly personal information recom- mender that augments a person’s
online calendar with useful informa- tion pertaining to their upcoming activities. To
perform this recommen- dation, it draws upon a large collection of distributed, linked-data
and Web 2.0 data sources it queries live, and provides a clear, simple user in- terf...
http:me
- A personal news of local area + data recommender or day
Social networking forms an important part of online activities of Web users. Web sites such
as Facebook, MySpace and Orkut have millions of users using them everyday. However, these
sites present two problems. Firstly, these sites form information silos. Information on one
site is not usable in the others. Secondly such sites do not allow users muc...
The Web has developed into a global information space consisting not just of linked
documents, but also of Linked Data. In 2010, we have seen significant growth in the size of
the Web of Data, as well as in the number of communities contributing to its creation. In
addition to publishing and interlinking datasets, there is intensive work on develop...
How can we best design Web technology to support the features we would like of our society
such as: openness, justice, transparency, accountability, participation, innovation, science
and democracy?
The Web is critical not merely to the digital revolution but to our continued prosperity—and
even our liberty. Like democracy itself, it needs defending
With the recent uptake on the linked open data on the Web, there are many interlinked data
sets on the Web today. Interesting results that might not be obvious from this raw data
itself, can be derived by computing answers to rules using the data and essentially
connecting the dots to see the big picture. We describe a novel method to crawl the Web...
Purpose – The World-Wide Web (W3) initiative is a practical project designed to bring a
global information universe into existence using available technology. This paper seeks to
describe the aims, data model, and protocols needed to implement the “web” and to compare
them with various contemporary systems. Design/methodology/approach – Since Vanne...
A review of the use of the Semantic Web to support e-Science and e-Social Science
A single datum or a set of a categorical data has little value on its own. Combinations of
disparate sets of data increase
the value of those data sets and helps to discover interesting patterns or relationships,
facilitating the construction of
new applications and services. In this paper, we describe an implementation of using open
geographical d...
The advent of social computing on the Web has led to a new generation of Web applications
that are powerful and world-changing. However, we argue that we are just at the beginning of
this age of “social machines” and that their continued evolution and growth requires the
cooperation of Web and AI researchers. In this paper, we show how the growing...
Article describes the UK Open Government Data project which the two authors have been
leading and the planned launch of data.gov.uk a single point of access for all public
non-personal government datasets. It outlines the benefits that will flow from more
accessible and open data. The article first appeared in The Times 18th Nov 2009
http://www.the...
The Web allows users to share their work very effectively leading to the rapid re-use and
remixing of content on the Web including text, images, and videos. Scientific research data,
social networks, blogs, photo sharing sites and other such applications known collectively
as the Social Web have lots of increasingly complex information. Such inform...
The term "Linked Data" refers to a set of best practices for publishing and connecting
structured data on the Web. These best practices have been adopted by an increasing number
of data providers over the last three years, leading to the creation of a global data space
containing billions of assertions-the Web of Data. In this article, the authors...
While health records are increasingly stored
electronically, we, as citizens, have little access to this
data about ourselves. We are not used to thinking of
these official records either as ours or as useful to us.
We increasingly turn to the Web, however, to query
any ache, pain or health goal we may have before
consulting with health care profes...
Creative Commons is a non-profit organization that has been striving to provide simple,
uniform, and understand-able licenses that content creators can use to issue their con-tent
under. These licenses provide a solution to the problem of copyright on the Web, while
ensuring that the culture of reusing existing works to foster creativity is not hin...
The structure of the Semantic Web gives users the power to share and collaboratively
generate decentralized linked data. In many cases, though, collaboration requires some form
of authentication and authorization to ensure the security and integrity of the data being
generated. Traditional authorization systems that rely on centralized databases ar...
The current Web of Data, including linked datasets, RDFa content, and GRDDL-enabled
microformats is a read-only Web. Although this read-only Web of Data enables data
integration, faceted browsing and structured queries over large datasets, we lack a general
concept for a read-write Web of Data. That is, we need to understand how to create, update
a...
The term Linked Data refers to a set of best practices for publishing and connecting
structured data on the Web. These best practices have been adopted by an increasing number
of data providers over the last three years, leading to the creation of a global data space
containing billions of assertions-the Web of Data. In this article we present the...
Studying the Web will reveal better ways to exploit information, prevent identity theft,
revolutionize industry and manage our ever growing online lives
In the past, many knowledge representation systems failed because they were too monolithic
and didn't scale well, whereas other systems failed to have an impact because they were
small and isolated. Along with this trade-off in size, there is also a constant tension
between the cost involved in building a larger community that can interoperate thro...
Despite the huge success of the World Wide Web as a technology, and the significant amount
of computing infrastructure on which it sits, the Web, as an entity remains surprisingly
unstudied. In this article, we look at some of the issues that need to be explored to model
the Web as a whole, to keep it growing, and to understand its continuing socia...
Ease of information flow is both the boon and the bane of large-scale, decentralized systems
like the World Wide Web. For all the benefits and opportunities brought by the information
revolution, with that same revolution have come the challenges of inappropriate use. Such
excesses and abuses in the use of information are most commonly viewed throu...
The Web is increasingly understood as a global information space consisting not just of
linked documents, but also of Linked Data. More than just a vision, the resulting Web of
Data has been brought into being by the maturing of the Semantic Web technology stack, and
by the publication of an increasing number of data sets according to the principle...
Figure 1. The Tabulator. The first frame shows the Tabulator with an RDF source, the Open
Linked Data Project open. The second frame shows information within that source expanded,
the third frame shows another source within that source expanded, and finally, the last
frame shows that the label of that source has been edited from "Music and artist d...
The Web is increasingly understood as a global information space consisting not just of
linked documents, but also of Linked Data. More than just a vision, the resulting Web of
Data has been brought into being by the maturing of the Semantic Web technology stack, and
by the publication of an increasing number of data sets according to the principle...
The Semantic Web drives towards the use of the Web for interacting with logically
interconnected data. Through knowledge models such as Resource Description Framework (RDF),
the Semantic Web provides a unifying representation of richly structured data. Adding logic
to the Web implies the use of rules to make inferences, choose courses of action, an...
Data is often encumbered by restrictions on the ways in which it may be used. These
restrictions on usage may be determined by statute, by contract, by custom, or by common
decency, and they are used to control collection of data, diffusion of data, and the
inferences that can be made over the data. In this paper, we present a data-purpose
algebra...
In this chapter, we describe the motivations for, and development of, a rule-based policy
management system that can be deployed in the open and distributed milieu of the World Wide
Web. We discuss the necessary features of such a system in creating a “Policy Aware”
infrastructure for the Web and argue for the necessity of such infrastructure. We t...
A first category of Semantic Web browsers were designed to present a given dataset (an RDF
graph) for perusal, in various forms. These include mSpace, Exhibit, and to a certain extent
Haystack. A second category tackled mechanisms and display issues around linked data
gathered on the fly. These include Tabulator, Oink, Disco, Open Link Software's D...
The work funded by DARPA and done by MIT and W3C under DAML Agent Markup Language (DAML)
project between 2002 and 2005 provided key steps in the research in the Semantic Web
technology, and also played an essential role in delivering the technology to industry and
government in the form of open W3C standards. The Web Ontology Language (OWL), a W3C...
Understanding and fostering the growth of the World Wide Web, both in engineering and
societal terms, will require the development of a new interdisciplinary field.
The article included many scenarios in which intelligent agents and bots undertook tasks on
behalf of their human or corporate owners. Of course, shopbots and auction bots abound on
the Web, but these are essentially handcrafted for particular tasks: they have little
ability to interact with heterogeneous data and information types. Because we have...
Attempts to address issues of personal privacy in a world of computerized databases and
information networks -- from security technology to data protection regulation to Fourth
Amendment law jurisprudence -- typically proceed from the perspective of controlling or
preventing access to information. We argue that this perspective has become inadequat...
As the necessity of flexible Web security becomes more apparent and as the notion of using
policies for access control gains popularity, the number of policy languages being proposed
for controlling access to Web resources increases. Instead of defining a single standard
policy language, we believe that there should be a way of embracing different...
The World Wide Web has been revolutionary in terms of impact, scale and outreach. At every
level society has been changed in some way by the Web. This Panel will consider likely
developments in this extraordinary human construct as we attempt to realise the Next Wave of
the Web - a Semantic Web.Nigel Shadbolt will Chair a discussion that will focus...
With policy management becoming popular as a means of providing flexible Web security, the
number of policy lan- guages being proposed for the Web is constantly increasing. We
recognize the importance of policies for securing the Web and believe that the future will
only bring more policy lan- guages. We do not, however, believe that users should b...
In this chapter, we describe the motivations for, and development of, a rule-based policy
management system that can be deployed in the open and distributed milieu of the World Wide
Web. We discuss the necessary features of such a system in creating a "Policy Aware"
infrastructure for the Web and argue for the necessity of such infrastructure. We t...
There is an urgent need for transparency and accountability for government use of
large-scale data mining systems for law enforcement and national security purposes. We
outline an information architecture for the Web that can provide transparent access to
reasoning steps taken in the course of data mining, and accountability for use of personal
inf...
A web of linked RDF data may be enabled by standards specifying how links should be made in
RDF and under what conditions they should be followed as well as powerful generic RDF
browsers that can traverse an open web of RDF resources. The Tabulator is an RDF browser,
which is designed both for new users to provoke interest in the Semantic Web and g...
In this chapter, we describe the motivations for, and development of, a rule-based policy
management system that can be deployed in the open and distributed milieu of the World Wide
Web. We discuss the necessary features of such a system in creating a “Policy Aware”
infrastructure for the Web and argue for the necessity of such infrastructure. We t...
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![Fig. 4.2 Demand and supply for a network good [281].](profile/Daniel_Weitzner/publication/39994660/figure/fig5/AS:652578379538434@1532598218555/Demand-and-supply-for-a-network-good-281_Q320.jpg)
This text sets out a series of approaches to the analysis and synthesis
of the World Wide Web, and other web-like information structures.
A comprehensive set of research questions is outlined, together with
a sub-disciplinary breakdown, emphasising the multi-faceted nature of
the Web, and the multi-disciplinary nature of its study and development....
The key property of the WWWW is its universality: One must be able to access it whatever the
hardware device, software platform, and network one is using, and despite the disabilities
one might have, and whether oner is in a "developed" or "developing" country; it must
support information of any language, culture, quality, medium, and field without...
The Research Councils of the UK (RCUK) propose to require that the authors of all journal
articles resulting from RCUK-funded research must make them openly accessible by
self-archiving them on the web in order maximise their usage and impact. ALPSP (Association
of Learned and Professional Society Publishers) claim that this will have a negative ef...
The UK Research Funding Councils (RCUK) have proposed that all RCUK fundees should
self-archive on the web, free for all, their own final drafts of all journal articles
reporting their RCUK-funded research, in order to maximise their usage and impact. ALPSP (a
learned publishers' association) now seeks to delay and block the RCUK proposal, arguing...
The problem of updating and synchronizing data in the Se- mantic Web motivates an analog to
text dis for RDF graphs. This paper discusses the problem of comparing two RDF graphs,
generating a set of dierences, and updating a graph from a set of dierences. It discusses
two forms of dierence information, the context-sensitive "weak" patch, and the co...
The problem of updating and synchronizing data in the Semantic Web motivates an analog to
text dis,for RDF graphs. This paper discusses the problem of comparing two RDF graphs,
generating a set of dierences, and updating a graph from a set of dierences. It discusses
two forms of dierence information, the context-sensitive “weak” patch, and the cont...
A Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) is a compact string of characters for identifying an
abstract or physical resource. This document defines the generic syntax of URI, including
both absolute and relative forms, and guidelines for their use; it revises and replaces the
generic definitions in RFC 1738 and RFC 1808.
The coming Internet revolution will profoundly affect scientific information.
This memo provides information for the Internet community. This memo does not specify an
Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. IESG Note: The IESG
has concerns about this protocol, and expects this document to be replaced relatively soon
by a standards track document. PREFACE The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) i...
